Opinions of Wednesday, 14 April 2021Columnist: Sadiq Adu-TwumIn 2019 about 13,826 deaths were recorded from terrorist attacks. There is a strong disagreement between practitioners and scholars over both the meaning of terrorism and which groups and actions can be considered” terrorist” in nature. Third, there must be some kind of overarching political objective behind terrorist violence. Terrorist groups operate discretely among a civilian population, making government counter measures run the high risk of netting innocent civilians. Ghana, currently stand a high risk of possible attacks by terrorist and violent extremist groups within the West African sub-region.
